The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-06-16
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
WHY NOT?
CAN YOU GIVE ANY GOOD REAS-
ON FOR DECLINING TO
TAKE A LIFE POLICY?

You caunot say, "IJ is a novel thing y
Life Assurance has been practired,
| more or less for three hundred years.
IL the last hafcenturv it has grown with
| such rapidly in the Uuited States, that
| it is now one Of the greatest interests in
| h. country, ranking with the most i'm
| pOrtant raj road and banking Interests.
/ Many millions of dollars are paid by
the b ritish American companies every
| wear to the families of deceased m em bers
| OF Lille Assurance companies. In no
! other way has money ever been so sue
! cessful!y distributed among those Who
are dependent and una Re to earn money
| for themselves; and there is hardly a
person who reaus this but who knows OF
| families saved 10y the humane agency Ct
! Life Assurance nom distressing ills at
| tendant upon poverty.
You cannot say cit is impiety to pro-
pose to assure human lives"
| II it were criste7ice that is proposed to
be assured, it won d be iDpiety; but it is
possession, not existence.
You cannot say, 1T is a chance
operation"
The laws governing Life Assurance
rest upon the r. ckv bass ofmatnemaiical
| certainty. The facts of astronomy, even,
cannot be more surely ascertained and
| clearly demonstrated than the principles
upon which Life Assurance is based.
| You cannot say, 'It is enough that |
have wealthy friends and relatives"
| Would you think it just to have rela-
tives thrown on y0ur hands for support?
Is it right then,-is 1t manly-to leave
your family where they may at any time
become bIrden to relatives or friends
Aud does not your every parental feeling
recoil from such thought?
YOn cann0t say, Il must pay my
debts first
Thousands of hard working men have
unWiseIy said this to the neglec, Of Life
Assurance. Perhaps they struggled and
! ecoDomised to pay for farm, or home,
and lad it nearly paid for; but death
took them eff, and that m,0Ttg1ye aChich
had to be forecI 'sed, forced the property
upon the maj ket aud sacrificed it, and
| so the little al was lost? What O. prize
| an Sa;ch q case rOntd eUta1 q small Life
Policy haze been! Such examples ought
to be a warning to you. Because Won
are in debt You ought to be assured.
You cannot say, My income is slen-
| der. and can invest NY small earnings
in something better"
1t is easy to tind good investments for
small sums of money, say for $40, $50
$ 5 or 500? Are You sure of prolonged
life TO NIKE "Ose invest ments to amount
to much? But remember, by the paw
ment ola single Life Insurance premium,
| you make generous Investment at once
You cannot say, = am too good a sub
ject to assure; my father lived to old agc,
and l am sound and rugged"
Ysur go ID health has nlOneu yaLue
in it, which you may use, it You see fit
| Upon it you can instruct. at once for
| tune. Is 1t not wise to turn to account
this capital tyOursound constitution hy
tar ing insurance upon 1t. especially a.
accidents and disease lie in Matt for all
You cannot say, 1T implies a distrust
of Providence -
The objection might as we'll be urged
against Fire Insurance; or putting light
nins-rods on buildings or, indeed, tax
ing any precaution to avert possible
evils. Providence was not intended to
preclCde self help.
You cannot say "fhe assured are apt
| t. die SOON
This is a foolish superstition. It is
cdpab BILE of proof that Life Assurance
tends direc lg to protong lie, by reliev
log it Of anXieties anu by promoting
the stability, economy, and good order
of society and the family. And statistics
| prove the same thing.
You cannot say 1T is expensive"
| DO you ca ay ing up money .expen-
siys?'
You might as well talk Of the expense
| of buying bank stock. or of putting
aside your earnings in any safe place,
as to skeak of the expense of keeping up
a life policy. 1t is accumulation, not ex
| pense.
LIFE AND FIRE INSURANCE ApENT.
Henderson. \. G..
! Policies written in tirst>class compa-
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